…the most shocking of the trio is Edward Kienholz’s “Five Car Stud,” constructed (though never previously exhibited) in Los Angeles and shown in Germany in 1972 before being stashed away in a Japan storage facility, where it had remained until now. Of course, it’s not impossible to imagine why gallerists here or elsewhere declined the opportunity to transform their exhibition spaces into this walk-in civil rights horror scene. The installation offers unwitting viewers a veritable all-access pass to a nightmare, and arts patrons who take up the challenge might never be able to wander about the same room again without an involuntary flashback.
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